This is to officially notify you that you have been selected as one of the few beneficiary of 2010 United Nations 65th anniversary Compensation by random Email Search System(ESS). Your email id was lucky to be picked among the ten thousand emails that was selected worldwide by UN, you have been compensated with $200,000.00USD by United Nations as a sign to help the less privilege worldwide. to enmark the suecessful United Nations 65th Anniversary Celebration we have decided to give Ten thousand peoplearound the world compensation funds as a sign of reducing the global economy and financial meltdown around the world.Been among the lucky beneficiary of this compensation donation exercise you are hereby instructed to reconfirm this information's below for immediate claims

Rhakios wrote:I'm inclined to wonder why they bother, is anyone really going to fall for this any more?

Unfortunately, there are still people who just can't learn that easy money doesn't exist. People just see $US200,000.00 and start dreaming about what they could spend that on. They don't think they could ever end up losing everything they already own.

Dear Winner,It is another successful year as British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in conjuction with the National Lottery wish to congratulate you as your email address emerged one of the lucky winners at the 88th Edition of the BBC/National Lottery which subsequently won you the sum of £1,000,000 (ONE MILLION BRITISH POUNDS) as part of our end of the year promo. NOTE: no ticket was sold as winners were selected from a Data Base of 50,000,000 valid email addresses of active Internet Users in 2010, from which your Address came out as one of the lucky Five (5) winning coupon.

Ensure to claim your winnings as quickly as possible as failure to claim your winnings before Ten(10) working days from the day of this notofication will lead to cancellation of your prize from this Year's Edition of the BBC Lottery Promo.

If phishing is their game, it surprises me that they haven't got on the copyright violation out of court settlement yet.

Something like...

We have traced an illegal album/movie download of <current number1 album/movie here> to your IP Address and are in the process of surpinering your details from your internet provider.
blah, blah, threats etc...
We are offering you a chance to pay a fine of 1000 quid directly to our offices so that court and criminal proceedings do not have to proceed. Failure to do so will incur a possible compensation claim ranging into the hundreds of thousands and/or imprisonment blah blah more threats.
This chance expires in 1 week of receiving the email. Please contact us on this number +4412345678 ASAP. Do not reply to this email (because it's spoofed).

Regards,
Legal representatives of the MPAA/RIAA or some other *****.

With piracy so rampant, chances are there are a lot of people who have actually downloaded the top album or movie and would probably fall for it. By just receiving an email like this, they'll be pooping in their pants.

Same here. I don't do online banking and yet HSBC and co. are always contacting me about my account! It's also strange that they can't afford to buy hsbc.com, and have to use domains like otbet11.ru or crack-srv351.biz instead. Poor HSBC, perhaps I should give them some money!

The only bank I don't get phishing mails from is the one I use. I have had quite a number from banks all across the world, the only problem being that I don't understand Portuguese, Turkish, Polish (?) and several others i have somewhat less idea about.

Rhakios wrote:The only bank I don't get phishing mails from is the one I use. I have had quite a number from banks all across the world, the only problem being that I don't understand Portuguese, Turkish, Polish (?) and several others i have somewhat less idea about.

me either, i use online banking and my bank never contact me through email??
paul